Improvement in water-wheels



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TIMOTHY ROSE, OF CORTLANDVILLE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-WH EELS.

Speciii cation forming part of Letters Patent No. l45,7211, (lated July11, 1865.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY RosE, of the town of Cortlandville, in thecounty of Cortland and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement-in Water-Wheels 5 and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the construction andoperation of the same, reference bein g had to the accompanying drawing,making a part of this specification, in which said drawing a perspectiveview of said improvement is given.

The wheel is represented in a vertical position, and to revolve in thedirection indicated by the lower arrow. 1t is used with ascroll fittedin the ordinary manner.

a a is the drum or hub ofthe wheelsay sixteen inches in length. Uponthis hub I place angular floats or buckets b b, presenting the apexofthe angle at c c, the angles heilig on,

or nearly on, the central line passing around the hub. These I call thecentral iioats or buckets.7 At d d these central buckets are joined byorto the outside buckets, (represented by dotted lines e 6,) in theusual shape of bucketsin reacting wheels, and discharging through theoritices at f f. Around the outside of' these end or reversed buckets isplaced a rim, g g, of the same depth with these end buckets. The wateris let onto the wheel at the angles in the central floats and in thedirection indicated by the upper arrow.

The main advantages I claim for this wheel are:

First. That it may be used in a vertical or horizontal position, and itwill revolve in one direct-ion or the other by reversing or changingends.

Second. That there is increased power attained, in that thereis lirst adirect action of the water upon the central buckets, and, second, both.a direct and reacting force or action upon the end or reversed buckets.In other words, the power obtained from the action of the water upon thecentral floats is in addition to the power obtained from the usualreacting wheel, which the end buckets in this wheel are intended torepresent.

Third. This wheel, by means of the angular central tloats, itselfdivides the column of Water as it comes onto the wheel. Heretofore thisdivision has been effected by a stationary dividing-block in the scroll.vSuch a block retards'the passage of water to the Wheel and detractsmore or less from its velocity and power. Here theangular bucket acts asa dividing-block, and one that constantly moves with the wheel. Fourth.Byenlargingtheissuesupon theone end of the wheel, and a correspondingmovement of the angles of the central oats farther from such enlargedorifices, the column of water may be divided unequally, and the wheelthus be balanced, the pressure of the Water being thus used to keep theWheel from lifting or bearin g down or pressing'to one side or'the otherwhen used horizontally.

What 1 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The central angular oats or buckets, b b, in connection and combinationwith the reversed end buckets, e c, as above set forth, and working inthe manner herein described.

l TIMOTHY ROSE. -fitnessesz i GHAs. FOSTER, T. M. DORWIN.

